Did you know that for every YouTube video there is a written transcript that you can access
I want to show you an example. I just uploaded this video a few hours ago and the transcript is already available
It usually is available sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes a few hours after a video is uploaded to YouTube
And you can access the transcript whether it's your own video or someone else's video
So let me show you. Scroll down underneath a YouTube video and find the three dots
Click on the three dots and then click on open transcript. Now there it is
There's my complete written transcript that YouTube has used their artificial intelligence to sense what I am saying
And it is usually pretty accurate. So you can use this to quickly look at what was said in the video without having to watch the whole video
And then you can also use this to quickly jump to any section of the video
So for example, you know, if I want to look at this section of the video right now, you can see I'm at zero
I just started playing the video. But if I want to jump to this section, I simply click here and voila
It jumps to 1 minute 56 seconds into the video. Now let me show you how to find a specific word or topic in the video
You simply use your browser's find function, which on a Mac is Command F
On a Windows it's Control F. So I'm on a Mac. I'm going to press Command F
And this pulls up your browser's find function. And here type in a word that you want to find in the transcript
So for example, let's say I want to find where I talked about Facebook ads in this video
So I'm going to type in Facebook ads. And there it is
It shows me that there are four instances where I talked about this in the video
And there it is. It's put in orange there. You can quickly see it
And I can use these arrows to go up and down to the next instance
So I'm going to click down. And there's my second instance where I talked about it
And click down again. Let's see here. You probably can't see. There it is, the third instance
And then down again, there's the fourth instance. And like I said, you can click on any aspect, oh sorry, any part of the transcript to jump directly there
So for example, right now I'm at 1 minute 56 seconds. If I click here, I jump directly to 16 minutes 19 seconds and I can start playing the video
The Facebook ads one does have a poof. So there you go. So I hope this is helpful and have fun checking out the written transcripts of any YouTube video that you come across. Enjoy